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Description: | Cast cu-alloy flat axe dating to the Early Bronze Age. It is complete but in very poor condition. Over 90% of the original surface have eroded away and only patches of it remain on only one side of the axe. These patches of original patina, however, display grooved decoration which was applied in horizontal and vertical rows on the main body/centre of the axe. The complete decoration would have similar to that of an axe found in Bunrannoch, Scotland, which was described by T Cowie and B O'Connor in their 2001 paper on flat axes from Scotland in the Festschrift for JJ Butler (O'Connor and Cowie 2001, fig 4). In the classification of Early Bronze Age axe from Southern England formulated by S. Needham this axe belongs to Class 4E which is characteristic of his Willerby metalwork assemblage dating to c. 1900-1700BC.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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